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The Evil Genius

CHAPTER IX
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"Why are you thinking of the child," he asked, "at such a time as this ?" She replied without returning or looking round; distrust of herself had inspired her with terror of Linley, from the time when the bracelet had dropped on the grass.
"I can make but one atonement," she said.

"We must see each other no more.

I must say good-by to Kitty--I must go.

Help me to submit to my hard lot--I must go." He set her no example of resignation; he shrank from the prospect that she presented to him.
"Where are you to go if you leave us ?" he asked.
"Away from England! The further away from _you_ the better for both of us.

Help me with your interest; have me sent to the new world in the west, with other emigrants.


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